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Thursday, December 27, 2012

More 20th Dynasty DNA

Here is what came out when I put the DNA of Ramesses III and his son into a popaffiliator program. It requires 9 loci and I had only 8 to work with. Therefore in the case of Ramesses III, I added D3S1358, putting in the highest number for the modern Egyptian population, 15, for the father and the arbitrary high Greek one of 16 for the mother. I did this because, at D7S820, the mother of Ramesses III has 15, which is not even on the chart for modern Egyptians. Here is the result:

You'll have to click on the image to read it. Next comes "Unknown Man E". For his 9th locus, I added a different one, D851179. For his father, I put the highest number at that marker in the Egyptian population, which is 14. For the mother, I put in an only slightly lower one of 12. I added nothing foreign, that I know of, to the DNA of "Unknown Man E", yet his "Eurasian" quotient rises from that of Ramesses III. Caveat, I do not know how accurate this popaffiliator is.

It can be found here, if anyone wants to enter his own DNA to test it out.

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To further check the validity of popAffiliator (I also used version 2 as it is a bit more accurate) (http://cracs.fc.up.pt/~nf/popaffiliator2/) using the same 9 STRs, I ran the STRs of a few samples from DNATribes website (http://www.dnatribes.com/sampleresults.html).

As we can see below, ALL of them were assigned to their correct Continental groups (Sub-Saharan Africa, Eurasia, Asia).

Just note these are NOT admixture proportions but just probabilities. So it seems that even 8 markers are enough to assign the correct continental groups with Sub-Saharan individuals always getting a Sub-Saharan probability > 90%.